Lining for a coat



July 19, 1955 5. LA- FATA 2,713,169

LINING FOR A COAT Filed 001. 29, 1952 INVENTOR. 5 rate L fi q HTTORNEY- United States Patent LINING FDR A CDAT Sylvester La Feta, Bellevne, Ky.

Application Gctober 29, 1952, Serial No. 317,419

1 Claim. (Cl. 2-97) This invention relates to garments, and, more particularly, to a lining for a garment coat for preventing the coat from curling forwardly at the lower front corners.

Forward curling of the lower front corners of garment coats is a problem of long standing in the trade. Heretofore, solutions have been sought by attempting to press flat the forwardly-curled corners, or by applying various cuts or fashions to the outer material of the coat. While these measures have been temporarily satisfactory, so long as a new or freshly-pressed coat is put on, nevertheless the lower front corners tend to flare forwardly soon after the garment is worn, thereby destroying the appearance of an otherwise nicely fitting coat. While the phenomenon is not limited to coats of any one class or gender, it is most deleterious in mens suit coats. The object now is to provide a canvas inner-lining for coats which will not only militate against forward flaring of the lower front corners, but which will create a slight tendency towards inward curl of the coat corners.

More specifically, it is intended now to provide, for a coat front, a canvas inner lining having generally vertically-running darts, With one edge of each dart slightly curved and longer than the other edge so as to create a slight tendency for the canvas to bow, or to become concave-convex. By arranging these darts near the free front edges of a coat, the bowing tendency will always be outwardly, or forwardly of the body of the wearer because of the natural tendency of the lining thus formed to conform to an over-all circumferential contour, and also because the bow is almost constantly forced outwardly by the wearer of the garment cloaked within.

These and other objects will be apparent from the following specification and drawing, in which:

Fig. 1 shows the front of a typical coat, with the outer material removed from lower front part of one side to illustrate the invention; and

Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the lower front half part of a canvas inner lining for a coat, prior to closing of the dart; and

Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2 but showing the finished dart.

Referring now to the drawing, in which like reference numerals denote similar elements, the front of a mans suit coat is indicated at 2, the coat being of conventional design and outer material 3, and being unusual only in 2,713,169 Patented July 19, 1955 "ice the regions adjacent its front edges 4 and 6 which terminate in lower front corners 8 and 10.

The invention is directed specifically to the canvas inner liner 12 which, in the regions A, A adjacent the lower front corners of the coat, is provided with a pair of generally vertically-running darts 14, 14-. Since the darts are substantially identical, only one will be detailed.

The characteristics of dart 14 in Fig. 1 can best be ascertained in Fig. 2 which shows the lower front half part canvas inner lining 12 after it has been cut, but prior to its completion by stitching and binding. Dart 14 is generally triangular, with its Widest part starting at the lower edge 15 of canvas 12, and with its upper end 16 terminating at the waist regions of the coat. One edge 17 of dart 14 is straight, Whereas the opposite edge 18 is of slightly convex curvature, and therefore slightly longer than straight edge 17. Thus, when the edges 17 and 18 are brought together over binding tape 20 and connected by stitching 22, an almost imperceptible but nevertheless effective fullness results in the region B, thereby causing a tendency of the free edge 24 of canvas 12 to curl inwardly, as denoted by the curved arrow C.

The slight fullness in regions B, B will always be prompted outwardly because the shirt of the coat tends naturally towards the cylindrical and, when the coat is donned, the wearer exerts an outward force on the coat material. In practice of the invention, it has been found that the outer material 3 of coat 2 follows the tendencies exerted by canvas 12 and, while even to the practiced eye, the outer appearance of the coat is conventional, corners 8 and 10 never flare forwardly.

The invention is not limited to the embodiment detailed above, but is intended to cover all modifications and equivalents within the scope of the following claim.

I claim:

A coat having abdominal covering portions loosely embracing the body, said coat having left and right front panels with a vertically extending front opening, the central edges of the front panels being adapted to overlap and be secured together, a lining for each of said left and right front panels, each lining having a vertically extending dart extending upwardly from the bottom edge thereof and over the abdominal covering portions of the coat, said darts being centrally located in each lining, the exterior material of the panels being otherwise substantially straight and flat, the various widths of the lining being less than the corresponding widths of the exterior material by an amount substantially equal to the widths of the darts at any given region, whereby said linings bow slightly from the flat planes thereof.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 392,493 Brown Nov. 6, 1888 2,140,853 Sandone Dec. 20, 1938 FOREIGN PATENTS 14,813 Great Britain 1910 

